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Published: 2015-06-03 16:17:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 4246; Favourites: 148; Downloads: 0
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    In arguments, as in most things in life, there's a decided advantage to being a Giant Robot.

    I don't claim that this is fair.

    Some of us, despite our rigorous attention to logic and rhetoric, despite our faithful attendance at the debate club, completely without reference to our careful preparation and well-reasoned arguments, were simply not born with gigantic cannons mounted in our chests; through no fault (or merit) of our own, our fists are not five hundred pound mallets made for mayhem.

    It's not a level playing field, in other words.

    All I can say is: buck up, keep a stiff upper lip, and be prepared to run through the streets while you shriek like the teakettle of doom.

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Yet another t-shirt design for the Retropolis Transit Authority (shop.webomator.com/retropolis/… ); this time, I worried that it might be too accurate to be funny. But there you go.

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Taliesin-of-Tomorrow [2016-05-13 01:10:35 +0000 UTC]

    In arguments, as in most things in life, there's a decided advantage to being a Giant Robot.

Truer words were never spoken.

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bear48 [2015-09-12 00:22:57 +0000 UTC]

nice job

love the details 

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MurderousAutomaton [2015-07-03 02:35:43 +0000 UTC]

Nice!

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Ariel-X [2015-06-13 15:54:15 +0000 UTC]

Love this. It is beautiful both as a poster and as a t-shirt.

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brancorvo [2015-06-11 20:33:03 +0000 UTC]

lol

I can see your point!

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I-Am-Madbat [2015-06-07 11:29:29 +0000 UTC]

Is it necessary to shriek like the teakettle of doom or can we panic silently?

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BWS In reply to I-Am-Madbat [2015-06-07 13:55:37 +0000 UTC]

Oh, when you panic silently you're still shrieking like the teakettle of doom ON THE INSIDE.

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I-Am-Madbat In reply to BWS [2015-06-07 14:11:34 +0000 UTC]

That's very true! Sometimes though, it sounds like the foghorn of the 'pocklips, but that may just be me. 
But this illustrates why it is important for the Interstellar Adventurer™ (or any other variety really) to travel as lightly as possible. When that ol' teakettle sounds you don't want to sound like a bag of pans rolling down a marble staircase when you run. It's simply undignified. 

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Digishade [2015-06-04 02:59:58 +0000 UTC]

I'd kill for an RPG where the players are robots themed like this. With this art.

Great work! I especially like how the robot somehow seems *dumb* (its the eyes, really), but still really, really potentially threatening.

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BWS [2015-06-03 16:25:42 +0000 UTC]

It's been my experience that giant robots don't respond well to an Argument From Authority. But go right on ahead... I'll be over there. Way over there.

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BrutalityInc [2015-06-03 16:22:19 +0000 UTC]

Or one can acquaint themselves with some heavy anti-armour ordinance - say a missile launcher, or even a main battle tank - to even the playing field and express displeasure at the robots' insistence on debating with chest-mounted rotary cannons.

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